Cotton-gin.



A. A. Z ALONDE K. COTTON GIN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4.1914.

1,155,18 PatentedSept. 28, 1915.

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A. A. ZALONDEK.

COTTON GIN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4.1914.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

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ANTONQALBERT ZALONDEK, or CAPITOL HILL, OKLAHOMA.

COTTON-GIN.

I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept]. 28, 19 15.

Application filed. June 4, 1914. Serial No. 842,901.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, ANTON A. ZALoNDEK,

a citizen of the United States,zand a resident of Capitol Hill, in thecounty ofOklahoma,

and State of Oklahoma, have invented an Improvement in Cotton-Grins, ofwhich the following is a specification,

My present invention relates to cotton gins, and my object is toprovide'an apparatus of this characterwhich will obviate many of thedifliculties incident to ginning machinery now ingeneral use and whichusually 111- cludes a horizontal shaft on whlch the saws retained withthe cotton roll? on the breast.

In overcoming this important difi iculty I attain otheradvantages asregards simplicity and reduced cost, as well'as reduction'of spacerequired for installation and operation by the gin shown in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and-inwhich= j Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side elevationpartlybroken away and in vsectlon.

Fig- 3 is aview partly in front elevation.

and partly in vertical section, taken therethroughsubstantially online33 of Fig; 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail horizontal section through the air supply pipe ofthecotton removing nozzles. Fig. 5is an elevation of a portion of the airsupply pipe with a pair of its nozzles, one of which is partly brokenaway, and in section, and looking from the side thereof, and Fig. 6 is asimilar viewlooking at the pipe endwise of its nozzles. i

Referring now to thes'efiguresit Wlll be seen thatv I provide an uprightcotton gin, the lower portion of which is in the form of a hollow gearcasing A, horizontally through the lower portion of whichis journaledthe main driving shaft B having a bevel gear 137 thereon withintheqcasing. The casing is also arranged to support in its top plateA ajournal for the-lower portion of the vertical saw shaft C, thelowerextremity of which depends withinthe gear casing A and is provided witha bevel gear C in mesh with the bevel gear of the driving shaft Bbeforementioned. I

The saw shaft C extendsvertically above the gear casing A within anupright rectangular box D, through the top D of which theuppernextremity of the said shaft is tical series within the boX.

The front'side of the box D as will be seen by reference to Figs. 1 and3 is open above the forwardly, extended upper portion A of the gearcasing A and above which extension A is arranged, a vertical 7cylindrical shell E secured with its lower end spaced above the top A ofthe gear casing and with its rear inner open portion toward the gin sawsto receive the periph cries of these saws partially thereinns will beplainly seen from Fig.,1. Vertically through this shellE is mounted ashaft F, the, lower end of which depends through the top A of the gearcasing and within the. forward extension A of said casing and isjournaled, and is provided with the usual I 'clrcular gin saws (J spacedapart in a verprovided with a pinion F in mesh with a somewhat smallerpinion C mounted on the saw shaft C above its bevel gear C.

At the upper extremity of shaft C which projects above the open top ofthe shell E is secured a head F having feed arms projecting inrelatively opposite; directions therefrom and spirally curved andterminating in upwardly and laterally inclined end hooks f whereby tofeed cotton from not shown, downwardly into the, upper open end of theshell E, at the front side ofwhich is hinged a main'door E throughWhichready access may be had to the cotton space Within the shell E andto the conical fluted roller G which is secured upon'the shaft F withitssmaller end uppermost and its enlarged lower end spaced above the top Aof the gear casing A.

Vertically along one side of the series of gin saws and between the boXD andthe shell E is arranged a vertical supporting beam H to which aresecured the outer ends of a vertical series of horizontal ribs H, theinner free ends of which project between the several saws C in order toperformthe functions of the ribs in the gins now in use.

Upstanding within the box D at one: side of the vertical series of sawsis an air supply pipe I having equidistantly spaced ports 2' from whichproject a vertical series of nozan upper supply pipe,'hopper or thelike,

" zle pipes I, the outer free ends'of which are projected betweenand-tangentially of the several gin saws C in the manner best shown inFigs. 1 Land 5, and the outer end's of which pipes arev crinipedcentrally at z" in order to provide separate discharge ports Z2 atsllghtly diverging angles w th respect to one another and thus .directjets of air against the ad aCent surfaces of the saws above and belowthe same'as Will be plainly seen in Fig. '5.

Thus it will be seen that'vthe gin saws and Y the conical fluted rollerGr are rotated in operation inrela-tively opposite and at'substantially" diii'erent speeds the :speed of movement of the gin sawsbeing greater than that'of the roller, The cotton .to he ginn'ed is, bymeans of the head'F 'fed'eYenl-y into the upper end of the shell Earound the fluted roller, the latter icansingetheicotton, at itsupper-,or smaller end, to begin to revolve around it as core @The travelof i-the cotton'YaroLmdv-iniithe shell E wilgl be retarded somewhat dueto the slower relative rotation of thegfiuted-"nol'ler G to thatof thegin saws, .andathe frictional resistance .of the wall of theshellitself, so as to permitof a maximum-action oft-lie gin saws uponthe moving cotton. rcllfithus me i i As the ginning action of thesawsfggradw ally reduces the buljk'ofthe. cotton,'it graduallyworksdownward on the fluted roller G and is Lspreadto the aetionef theisaws in suehjdownward 'mo zeinent so that in the course i fth s o me tall of the-cotton seedwill be acted up on bya-each of 'thelsaws.

of the entire seriesnnt-i-l the completely ginned seedwith the trashandirefuse mat- Lire c lg d from the lower end bf and lgmoved i Thedischarge spacei at the lower end :of I

the shell E may beincreased'by"vertical adjustment of a-supplementaldischargedioor E rnovablein guides upon'thelower portionof the main doorE of the shell. In'the meantime the cotton collected. @by

the gin saws is continuously removedthere-V from by the action of theseveral nozzles- 1" arranged as before described and maybe 1 removed atoneside ofthe shell Thus with a'niachine constructed and i0 5 stating inthis manner, the working load is distributed evenly throughout theseries of saws. C and the ginning operation is efiectiyely completed inconsiderably less time than it can be done with the machines now in'use.Y

It is perfectly apparent that a machine such asfI propose isconsiderably more simple andless expensive than those now in use andthat it requires less space for its installation and operation than theusual horizontal'gins. It is' also, apparent that by the use of amachine such as I propose-seed horizontally through the flower portionof the casing, asubstantialiy rectangular box" cotton will be preventedfrom out unginned and that there will be no idle saws until the roll ofCotton begins to gin out. Furthermore there can "be no overlapv ofginning periods in ginning custom cotton as each roll is ginned entirelyout before the next-roll. is begun, thus avoiding the danger-of mixing ahigh grade of cotton of one customer 'iui th the low grade of another.

Furthermore the trash is continuously discharged throughout the entireoperation 10f .thegin. Itis to be understood, however,

that zthis gin is not-confined to the ginning V of-seed cotton but maybeused withjcqual facilitya-nid equal effective results inconnGCtlOH withthe de'llntingof cotton seed as required in mill service.

Iclairn; H

1 Ina cotton gin,-=th e combination offa lower gear-casing; a driveshaft journaled secured in upright position upon the gear casing andopen at its front side, a saw shaft gonrnaled vertlcallygthrough theboxing and through the upper'portion of the gear casing, gearsconnectingthe saidsa-w shaft to the said drive shaft, a vert cal series of ginningsaws mountedinspfaced relation upon the saw shaft withinthe box, a shaftjour' ml'edertically through the upper portion .of thesgear:casingandextending parallel with and spaced from the'saw shaft at the openisi deof the box gears connecting said shaft ix'vith' the saw shafaaeonicalfiiited roller mountedigon the latter shaft with its smaller-enduppermost its lower enlarged end spaced above-the top of 'thege'arcasinga shell open at its upper and lower ,J

ends-and disposed around thesaid fluted roller and its shaft andfopenadjacent to the sawsfthe' lower open end of the said ed in guides on thelower portion of the said shell being spaced above the top of the gear iadjustable diseharge'door mountshell; and a feeding head'securedupon thecasing "and openat its fronts'idega saw shaft journaled verticallythrough the boxing and through the upper portion of the gear ,vca sing,gears-connecting the said saw shaft to the said-drive shaft, a erticalseries of ginning saws mounted "in spaced relation upon the saw shaftwithin the box, a shaft jour secured in upright-position upon the gear Inaled ertically through the upper portion of the gear casingandeXtending-parallel with and spaced trom the saw shaft at the open vside of the box, gears connecting said shaft With the saw shaft, aconical fluted roller mounted on the latter shaft With its smaller enduppermost and its lower enlarged end spaced above the top of the gearcasing, and a shell open at its upper and lower ends and disposed aroundthe said fluted roller and its shaft and open adjacent to the saws, thelower open end of the said shell being spaced above the top of the gearcasin 3. In machinery of the character described, the combination of avertical saw shaft, saws mounted horizontally thereon in spacedrelation, a beam mounted to extend vertically along the series of saws,a plurality of ribs secured to the beam and having their free endsextending between the saws, a shaft mounted parallel with the saW shaftand spaced therefrom, a conical fluted roller mounted upon the lastmentioned shaft, means for driving the saw shaft, and geared connectionsbetween the saw shaft and the roller shaft, all for the purposedescribed.

4. In 'machinery of the character described, the combination of avertical series of ginning saws, a conical roller arranged and operatingat one side of the series of saws with its smaller end uppermost, meansfor rotating the saws and roller in relatively opposite directions andat different speeds, a shell open at its base and in which the roller ismounted, and a box in which the saws are mounted, opening at one sideinto the roller shell, all for the purpose described.

I 5. In machinery of the character described, the combination of avertical series of ginning saws, a conical feed roller mounted andoperating at one side of the series of saws With its smaller enduppermost, means for rotating the roller and saws and housingscommunicating With one another and in which the said saws and saidroller are disposed.

6. In machinery of, the character described, the combination of avertical series of ginning saws, a conical fluted feed roller arrangedand operating at one side of the series of saws, means for rotating the,said roller and saws in definite relation with respect to one another,and housings communicating With one another and in Which the saws andfeed roller are disposed.

7. In machinery of the character described, the combination of avertical series of saws and a conical fluted feed roller arrangedvertically along and operating at one side of the series of saws, forthe described.

8. In machinery of the character described, the combination of avertical series of ginning saws, and a conical feed roller mountedvertically along and operating at one side of the series of saws,withits smaller end uppermost.

ANTON ALBERT ZALONDEK. Witnesses:

H. V. CoonRELL, HORACE HAYDEN, Jr.

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Washington, D. G.

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